The current volume represents the outcome of the international conference “National and European Values of Public Administration in the Balkans,” organised in Bucharest on 15-16 July 2011. The conference has been organised by Jean Monnet research network dedicated to “South-Eastern...

The current volume reproduces papers presented in the Workshop which was organized in Athens, in February 2010 by the European Public Law Organization (EPLO) and the Faculty of Public Administration – National School of Political Studies and Public Administration (NSPSPA), Bucharest. The...

Since the conceptual framework of the European Administrative Space (EAS) in 1990s, at least two convergent trends may be found out. The first trend refers to EAS operationalisation as instrument and mechanism for assessing the reforms of the national public administrations. Herewith, we refer...

In the context of the European administration development, the Balkan states are shaping a distinct area, determined both by specific traditions and administrative culture, status of the European integration and influences of New Public Management, “weberian” administration etc. The current...

The paper has as main topic the administrative convergence and its reflection in the national strategies of administrative reform in some states in South Eastern Europe. Having a complex content, sometimes even ambiguous, the administrative convergence will have as finality the integration in...

The European Union has grown both terms of size, scope, impact on Member States and in European Union competencies, in particular since the 1990s with the exponential growth in number of members - from 12 to 15 to 25 now 27 and how many more? - with the completion of the Single Market and the...

The aim of the article is to explore the characteristics of the emerging administration of the states from the South-east Europe under the changes and reforms imposed by the European Union pressure and also to present what means these characteristics. EU throw his policies and strategies has a...

In the past three decades, total quality management (TQM) has been appreciated as “fundamental modality in view to improve the activity in the public and private sectors” (Boyne and Walker, 2002, 1). For the time being, in public administrations, we witness an extension of the policies for...

The evolution from public services to networks of social enterprises, not integrated into administrative convergence, expresses the essence of a process of institutional restructuring and reconversion based on common directions above mentioned and determined by the impact of Collaborative Public...

The Europe two speeds is a reality that makes its presence felt, especially in the newly acceded countries. Although four years have passed since the last wave of accessions, we still speak about new EU countries, without taking into account the actual age but present discrepancies between...